Abd Al Malik (musician, author; France); Salim Abdali (biophysician, translator of Arabic literature; Iraq – Denmark); Houria Abdelouahed (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; France); Adel Abdessemed (artist; France);Pierre Abi-Saab (author, editor; Lebanon); Sarkis Abouzeid (author, editor; Lebanon); Fowziyah Abu Khalid (poetess, writer, scholar; Saudi Arabia); Kareem James Abu-Zeid (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; USA); Académie du Royaume du Maroc (Rabat, Maroc); Ai Weiwei (artist; China – UK); Zaher Al Aridi (editor, producer; Lebanon); Brahim Alaoui (curator; Morocco – France);Ahmad Alfaqeihi (poet, author, editor; Saudi Arabia); Dia al-Azzawi (artist, Iraq – UK); Amal Al-Jubouri (poetess; Iraq); Omar Al-Qattan (Chairman A M. Qattan Foundation, Palestine – UK); Mustafa Al-Slaiman (interpreter, translator of German literature; Germany); Ahmed Alsoudani (artist; Iraq – USA); Hubertus von Amelunxen (philosopher; Germany); Federico Arbos (scholar, translator of Arabic Literature; Spain); Atassi Foundation (Arts and culture foundation; Dubaï); Fadia Azar (scholar; Lebanon); Abed Azrié (composer; Syria – France); Banipal (magazine of modern Arab literature; UK); Hoda Barakat (author; Lebanon – France); Miquel Barceló (artist; Spain – France); Omar Bashir (musician; Iraq – Hungary); Chawki Bazih (poet; Lebanon); Bei Dao (poet; China);Tahar Ben Jelloun (author; Morocco – France); Abbas Beydoun (poet; Lebanon); Jonah Bokaer (dancer, choreographer; USA);Rachida Brakni (actress; France); Volker Braun (poet; Germany); Luigi Brioschi (publisher; Italy); Rafael Cadenas (poet; Venezuela); Casa Arabe (Madrid, Spain);René de Ceccatty (editor, author; France); Luca Cendali (architect; Italy); Chen Yu (artist; China); Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (dancer, choreographer; Belgium); Hélène Cixous (author; France); Jennifer Clement (author, President of PEN International; USA); Emanuele Coccia (philosopher; Italy – France); Antonio Colinas (poet; Spain); Giuseppe Conte (poet; Italy); Georges Corm (economist, former Minister; Lebanon); Robyn Creswell (scholar, author; USA); Trino Cruz Seruya (poet; Gibraltar); Ziad Dalloul (artist; Syria – France); Dar Al Saqi (publishing house; Lebanon); John Donatich (director, Yale University Press; USA); Dong Qiang (scholar,China);Dominique Eddé (author; Lebanon); Hajiba Fahmy (dancer, choreographer; Morocco – France); Antoine Gallimard (publisher; France); Isabelle Gallimard (publisher; France);Santiago Gamboa (author; Colombia);Antonio Gamoneda (poet; Spain); Theaster Gates (artist; USA); Daniel Gerlach (author; Germany)Reem Ghanayem (poet, editor; Palestine);Wissam Gibran (musician, composer; Palestine); Goenawan Mohammad (poet; Indonesia); Sebastiano Grasso (poet; Italy); Aymen Hacen (poet, translator of Arabic literature; Tunisia); Qasim Haddad (poet; Bahrein); Rawi Hage (author; Lebanon – Canada); Hassan Hamadé (editor; Lebanon); Abdellah Hammoudi (author, scholar; Morocco – USA); Peter Handke (Nobel Laureate for Literature 2019; Austria – France); Kaiser Haq (poet; Bangladesh); Milton Hatoum (author; Brazil); Mona Hatoum (artist; Lebanon – Palestine – UK); Hawad (Touareg poet and painter); Huang Lihai (poet; China); Özdemir Ince (poet; Turkey); Abed Ismael (poet, scholar; Syria); Clara Janes (poetess, author; Spain); Jidi Majia (poet, artist; China); Alejandro Jodorowsky (poet, director, artist); Pierre Joris (poet; Luxembourg – USA); Nuno Judice (poet; Portugal); Anish Kapoor (artist; UK); Marcel Khalifé (musician; Lebanon); Mohammad O. Khalil (artist; Sudan – USA); Chérif Khaznadar and Françoise Gründ (founders of the Maison des Cultures du Monde; France); Vénus Khoury-Ghata (poetess, author; Lebanon – France); Kim Neungwoo (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; South Korea); Jack Lang (President of Institut du Monde Arabe, former Minister; France); Claude Lemand (curator and patron; Lebanon – France); Bénédicte Letellier (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; France); Jeannette Lozano (poetess and publisher; Mexico);Kailan Lucas (lawyer, essayist, translator; China – UK); Fadi Maalouf (scholar; Palestine); Ruth Mackenzie (artistic director; France – UK); Emel Mathlouthi (musician; Tunisia); Khaled Mattawa (scholar, translator of Arabic Literature; Libya – USA); Federico Mayor (founder and chairman of the Fundacion Cultura de Paz, former Director General of UNESCO; Spain); Mo Yan (Nobel Laureate for Literature 2012; China); Edgar Morin (philosopher; France); Michael Morris (arts patron; UK); Ahmad Moualla (artist; Syria – France); Zad Moultaka (composer, artist; Lebanon – France); Laila Muraywid (artist; Syria – France); Nabu Museum (Lebanon); Marco Nereo Rotelli (artist; Italy);Basarab Nicolescu (physicist, philosopher; Rumania – France);Giannola Nonino with Benito, Antonella and Elisabetta Nonino (founder of the Premio Nonino; Italy); Jean Nouvel (architect; France); Margaret Obank (publisher; UK); Hans Ulrich Obrist and Koo Jeong-A (curator; Switzerland – UK / artist; South Korea – France); Ouyang Jianghe (poet, critic; China); Fatima Parchegani (scholar; Iran); Anna Pataki (publisher, Greece); Serge Pey (poet; France); Lemi Ponifasio (director, choreographer; New Zealand);Olivier Py (author, director of the Festival d’Avignon; France); Qian Xiaohua (photographer, founder and owner of Librairie Avant-Garde; China); Salman Rushdie (author; United Kingdom); Ghassan Safieddine and Tania Tanbak Bakalian (intellectual / artist; Lebanon);Joachim Sartorius (poet; Germany); Firas Sawwah (scholar, author; Syria); Samir Sayegh (artist; Lebanon); Dorothea Schöne (scholar, curator; Germany);Naseer Shamma (musician; Iraq – Germany); Ghassan Shami (editor, producer; Lebanon); Adam Shatz (editor; USA); Shu Cai (poet; China); Jean-Pierre Siméon (poet, editor; France); Regina Sneifer (author; Lebanon); Bengt Söderhäll (founder of the Stig Dagerman Society; Sweden); Mehmet Hakki Suçin (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; Turkey); Zoe Valdes (author; Cuba – France); André Velter and Sophie Nauleau (poet, editor / author, artistic director of the Printemps des Poètes; France); Dominique de Villepin (former Prime Minister, author; France); Wang Hao (artist; China); Wang Lixing (editor, critic; China); Wang Yin (poet, photographer; China); Stefan Weidner (scholar, translator of Arabic literature; Germany); Wild Children (music band; China); Wu Hao (scholar; China); Xin Ju (curator; China); Xue Qingguo (scholar, translator of Arabic literature, China);Yang Lian (poet, China – Germany); Zhang Ruling (poetess; China); Zhao Lihong (poet; China);Rudolf Zwirner (arts patron; Germany)